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Customers of HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, are currently being targeted with a fake warning of account suspension: The email claims that someone tried to access the user’s account and failed, and that the bank suspended the account in order to protect the customer. Unfortunately, the offered …
Iowa issues order to Nebraska-based contractorApril 12, 2012 16:19 GMT %reldate(2012-04-12T16:17:07 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County judge has ordered a Nebraska-based contractor to follow Iowa’s consumer fraud and door-to-door sales laws. A news release from the office of Iowa Attorney General Thomas Miller says the judge also ordered the company, NationWide Construction …
Cyber crime cases, phishing and transmission of obscene content in electronic form has seen a rise in Andhra Pradesh which has also witnessed a two-fold increase in the arrest of cyber offenders in 2011. From 197 cyber crime cases reported in 2010, the number went up to 350 in 2011 and the cases were registered …
SEATTLE — Text mail spam is especially annoying, since you pay for that message unless you have an unlimited plan. It’s also a growing problem. The New York Times reports that cell phone users in the U.S. received an estimated 4.5 billion spam texts last year. That’s more than double the 2.2 billion text spam …
<!– –> Tweet – A A A + Written by Lauren Melvin <!– –> Greensboro, NC — US Airways is warning customers about e-mails that claim to be from them. The emails are called phishing. US Airways officials said some customers are getting them, but so are people who haven’t even booked flights. Some …
TULSA – Brad sent the latest from his inbox to ours when he got an email claiming to be from Cox Communications asking for his password. “I spoke with Cox about this and they said it was a scam trying to get info so thought I would send it on to you so you …
SEATTLE — Text mail spam is especially annoying, since you pay for that message unless you have an unlimited plan. It’s also a growing problem. The New York Times reports that cell phone users in the U.S. received an estimated 4.5 billion spam texts last year. That’s more than double the 2.2 billion text spam …
Cyber crime cases, phishing and transmission of obscene content in electronic form has seen a rise in Andhra Pradesh which has also witnessed a two-fold increase in the arrest of cyber offenders in 2011. From 197 cyber crime cases reported in 2010, the number went up to 350 in 2011 and the cases were registered …
Nationals holding US visas were recently cautioned about one phishing e-mail that supposedly originated from the ‘US Department of State,’ published visabureau.com dated March 29, 2012. In its warning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that the persuasive electronic mails contained a formal-appearing caption while notified the visa-holders about them being amongst the 50,000 …
KOCHI: Is online banking safe? Taking a cue from the police after the first incident of phishing that occurred in Kochi in which an online fraudster transferred Rs 13.5 lakh from the account of a doctor, it has been confirmed that Internet banking is not 100 per cent safe, even after taking all precautions. According …
A 47-year-old mechanic from Santa Clarita was killed yesterday while working on a disabled tow truck that rolled over him in Chino, say San Bernardino County coroner’s officials. Jose Fernando Morales died at the scene of the 3:39 p.m. accident Monday in an industrial park along the 4700 block of Chino Avenue. Chino police are …
CUNA Mutual Group has sent a risk alert to its bonded credit unions urging them to warn members about possible phishing attempts in the wake of the data security breach at Global Payments Inc. The payments processor announced March 30 that it had uncovered the breach early in the month and that it had “immediately …
The newest mode of phishing frauds is an email from a sender posing as slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s wife. The email urges the recipient to help her get back huge investments Gaddafi made in financial companies in African countries. The phishing mails are sent in bulk to thousands of random email addresses. “Earlier they …
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has issued an urgent scam e-mail alert threatening business and consumers on receiving anxious calls from business owners, reported htrnews on 29 March, 2012. The scam e-mail uses the name of BBB in issuing a threat to business owners and highlights about receiving several complains regarding many unauthorized transaction from …
With the tax deadline fast approaching, many people are scrambling to get their paperwork in before the window closes and receive that check in the mail. But there are those out there who want to scam these long-awaited refunds from members of the public, and tax experts are trying to make the public aware that …
Nearly 1.5 million credit card accounts may be at risk for fraud following a security breach at payment processor Global Payments. This may prompt a wave of phishing email and phone scams, as criminals try to hit you in a weak moment when you’re wondering if your accounts were compromised. Hopefully you’ve heard about the …
This week Google Inc. announced the completion of its work on a free Web archive on legendry anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. Now just a click away is an online multimedia treasure trove of photographs, manuscripts (notes he scribbled on his desk calendar, diary entries from 27 years in prison and letters he wrote to his …
The Websense Threat Report for 2012 published lately reveals that USA is still the global leader in malware hosting as well as malware connections, part of one neat planned strategy that cyber-criminals actively adopt. The reason, according to the firm specializing in web-security, involves the improbable blockage of any America-based domain owing to its deleterious …